Review in a Nutshell: Few action movies encapsulate the anti-drug anxieties of the Eighties quite like Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, which also features roller skating arcades, fish-smuggling, and multiple exploding villains.

If I had to speculate a reason for the extended delay until the onset of Mandom’s most famous spokeman upon this podcast, it would be that horror, sci-fi, and fantasy are the bread and butter of GME! Charles Bronson’s primary claims to fame were within the realms of the Western and the contemporary crime drama, and as it stands the most memorable roles played by the man did NOT involve him being engaged in combat with any over-sized reptiles. Rather, the snakes he seeks to wrought his vengeance upon are the ones in suits bought with blood money, for whom the harmonica ceases to play.

One can only imagine how Metal Gear, and indeed THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, would have turned out had he played the role of Snake Plissken as originally intended.